King City

Yuko started the garden up again! Cool. We've got basil, hot peppers, rosemary and marigolds this time around. I loooove fresh basil.

I haven't recommended a book in a good long while! Hopefully I'm preaching to the choir when I mention Brandon Graham's King City omnibus. It's 424 pages for $20 (actually $11 at that Amazon link right now, which is a steal) and it's some of the most original comics you'll ever read. It's graffiti meets 80s manga meets Euro comics meets whatever the hell he wants. Here's the Amazon summary:

Joe is a catmaster, trained to use his cat as any tool or weapon. His best friend, Pete, falls in love with an alien he's forced to sell into green slavery, while his ex, Anna, watches her Xombie War veteran boyfriend turn into the drug he's addicted to. King City, an underbelly of a town run by spy gangs and dark dark magic with mystery down every alleyway.

What is doesn't get across is how stylish the art and paneling is and how fun the dialogue is. If you're looking for a new book to read, give King City a shot!

Haha! You planted marigolds! Fool! Now prepare for an entire suer of trying to figure out who to pass off marigold seeds onto, because it feels awkward just throwing pretty flower seeds away.
Soon you're going to be stuffing withered flowerheads into plastic baggies and crumpling out their seedy bounty onto little patches of grass and earth just because it feels like you should do -something- with the seeds.

I agree wholeheartedly with you on Graham's work, but you forgot to mention that readers need to really look at the backgrounds for all the weird, fun little things he draws in. Makes the book a slower read but it's sooooo worth it! XD

Marigolds help get rid of grubs and many other insects, but deer love them. A guy who owns a pasture near where I grew up grows them in his pasture to draw deer to his land where hunters can't get at them.

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